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RobertDevereaux

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Tue Sep 4, 2018, 10:31 AM Sep 2018

A Party Gone Bat-Shit Crazy

An excerpt from my new book, First We Destroy the GOP: Restoring America with Determination, Love, and Compassion.

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ALTHOUGH I WAS BORN while Harry Truman occupied the White House, by the time I developed any sort of political awareness, there sat good likable Ike in the Oval Office, golfing his way through eight years.

Dwight David Eisenhower, the last more or less sane Republican president, whose farewell address that warned against the growth of the military-industrial complex fell upon deaf ears. An address often quoted. Heeded and acted upon? Not at all.

So I've lived through the downfall of Tricky Dick, the train wreck of the Reagan years (that smooth, congenial con artist who brought us trickle-down economics, stealing from and taxing Social Security, selling Iran weapons, and funding the contras in Nicaragua), the two Bushes, and now Donald Trump, by far the worst of that sorry lot.

The once proud and sane party of Abraham Lincoln I've watched slide inexorably toward, and into, fascism.

This is the moment that the GOP must be decisively buried.

No half measures. It must be rendered dead and gone, and we must rise up resoundingly to bury it and keep it buried.

We owe it to ourselves.

We most certainly owe it to my father's generation who banded together with other nations to defeat the Germans and the Japanese. Recall that the victors took a defeated Germany in hand and guided that nation through a process known as deNazification.

Trump in all of his foulness has emboldened haters to go public with their hatred.

Never normalize this.

As we neuter and consign to a deserved oblivion this man of disgust and dementia, we will also be stuffing the genie of bigotry back into its bottle.

And we will do so decisively and with compassion for the broken souls who hate so intensely.
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A Party Gone Bat-Shit Crazy (Original Post) RobertDevereaux Sep 2018 OP
GOP destroyed itself. 40 yrs polarizing & dumbing down conservatives, Fox Limbaugh propaganda, etc. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2018 #1
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